Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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